Floyd brown: GOP toilet-diver pushes for impeachment

 Make no mistake. We're now in the middle of a bloodless coup – the takeover of an entire nation by the hate-America crowd – a cold-blooded gang that despises America's prosperity, our standing in the world, our trust in God and our generosity and goodness. ~~ Floyd Brown

After a brief hiatus, our old friend and Northwest homey, Floyd Brown is back.

Who's Floyd Brown, you ask? 

He's “one of the nation’s dirtiest political strategists” (USA Today); "the lowest form of life." (George H.W. Bush) "a slimy thug for hire," (George Stephanopoulos). He's a Republican operative, and an architect (with the late Lee Atwater, and Fox News' Roger Ailes) of the racially-charged Willie Horton ad against Michael Dukakis.

Floyd was once a KVI talk host, and he and wife Mary Beth, a hack conservative hagiographer, live in Tacoma.

He's OUR "slimy thug," goddamnit!

He's stirred up headlines once again with another national campaign guaranteed to raise money of the dittoheads and the blood pressure of normal people.

A "birther," he's leading the Impeach Obama "movement" which, at the moment, is comprised of the scabrous, conspiratorially theoretic WorldNetDaily, and Mary Beth. (We're not sure if harsh-tongued LA radio host Tammy Bruce is on board, but Floyd is throwing her name around and this quote: "Ultimately, it comes down to ... the fact that he seems to have, it seems to me, some malevolence toward this country, which is unabated.")

Movement? Well, it's what passes for a movement these days: many websites, an Impeach Obama superstore, petition sites, a rap song, Facebook groups.

Brown hasn't had much toilet-diving success since 1988. Lacking the deep pockets of the 2004 swift boaters, Brown never got off the ground during the 2008 election to run the attack ads he'd made accusing Obama of being soft on gang violence (with images of scary Negroes) and attending a madrassa.

Big donors like Scaife keep him outside the 10-foot pole range after well-publicized overreaches that got even Republicans mad at him. GOP-op Mary Matalin has said: "I'm not a big fan of Floyd Brown...He gave us the Willie Horton ads that the Republican Party has had to eat for two election cycles now."

But he's hard at it again- with, apparently, financial backers.

You'd think, "high crimes and misdemeanors," the constitutional circumstances required for impeachment might be a stretch when applied to the 11-month-old Obama administration.

Not Floyd- he's redefining "high crimes and misdemeanors" to suit his fundraising needs with the dittoheads. They're not, he says, constitutionally supposed to be "crimes in a legal sense," but rather, "bad behavior." That's getting "liberal" with the constitution, but his Articles of Impeachment are even more dubious:

    The Obama Administration exemplifies maladministration. It qualifies  as the poster-child for bad behavior.

    Obama and those around him are ravaging this great country and adding a sorry chapter to a noble history.

    Impeachment, as written in the Constitution, was tailor-made for Barack Hussein Obama and our Founders placed it in our Constitution for such a time as this.
    It could be easily argued that we have a duty to impeach Barack Hussein Obama.

Floyd suggests you "Get on board if you want to be ready [emphasis ours] to impeach Barack Obama." A bit premature? Wikipedia reports that early-onset impeachment of the Democrat in office is the way Floyd rolls.

"At the same time that Brown was investigating the Clintons, he was using the tax-exempt status of Citizens United [his non-profit front] to acquire funds, urging his donors to fill out an "emergency impeachment" survey, utilized a push-poll technique."

(You gotta admit, as far-fetched as it would have sounded in 1993, impeachment as a political tactic worked pretty well against the last popular Democrat in the White House).

Even the pugnacious Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) says the impeachment effort is just too crazy an idea for him to support:

I think that’s total nonsense and counterproductive, and quite often, people who are making statements like that are trying to put themselves in a position to raise money from the conservative movement. And any talk of that right now is ridiculous.

David Weigel, of the Washington Independent (whose judgment we admire) says he's convinced of Floyd Brown's sincerity... but he doesn't know Floyd like we do...

When we hear Floyd's name, we remember the 1992 CBS news investigation that exposed he and another Republican toilet angler, Dave Bossie's unethical and just plain mean tactics digging dirt on Bill Clinton in Arkansas. Unmercifully stalking and badgering the family of a pregnant young girl who'd committed suicide 15 years earlier, they were trying to pin her suicidal motives on the newly elected president. They harassed and threatened and actually approached her parents to get the suicide note. The effort was funded by Richard Mellon Scaife and others. Watch the CBS clip here.

We wrote two accounts of the smarmy, yet radical Floyd filling in for his old friend Kirby Wilbur (KVI m-f, 5-9a) last year. Part one here; the second is here. 

Catching up with Brown's website is always engaging. He's an unapologetic fan of philandering, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. When interviewed about Sanford and asked about the governor's next presidential nomination, he asked, “Who else is there?” If he's changed his mind about the Appalachian trekker he isn't saying.

Another treat is Mary Beth's op-ed to the News Tribune asserting that shacking up kills kids. There's a fawning youTube "author" interview of her by Floyd in which he never once identifies himself as her husband.

(photo: Floyd with Mary Beth)

Floyd Brown is a crude and unprincipled hit man who's paid in the shadows and justifies his means with his evangelical religion. Things have changed since the 2008 election. Republicans and conservatives are pissed off, and disheartened. The tactics of a Floyd Brown or Dave Bossie are looking more attractive as  desperation sets into a shrinking but hardening opposition.

Comments

[AuthenticAndrew]

Conservatives put a lot of stock in negative approval ratings to believe that a call for impeachment would gain traction, but Obama won the election by a healthy margin, and if you were to pit Obama against the best joke Republicans have to offer, cRAzY alaska bitch or that silly Mike Hucabee, Obama would win again with the same wide margins. Not only would voters refuse to compare eleven months of tentative results to eight years or sheer terror and national neglect, but just becuase a voter is against Party A doesn't mean they're with Party B.

I sincerely wish Floyd the best of luck. As blows to credibility go, MoveOn.org and George Soros are cute little bunny rabbits compared to the birthers, the deathers, the truthers and "impeachers" and assorted crying wing nuts who are loosing their marbles on live TV.

[Puget Sound]

Floyd Brown, I haven't heard too much of him lately. Their was a time when he practically seemed to own the KVI Airwaves.

Now Authentic Andrew, you may disagree with her politics but what is it exactly about Sarah Palin that would make you describe her as a Bitch? Why go there?

[Puget Sound]

i checked out that youtube link. in the first few seconds they identify her as 'Mary Beth Brown.'

[mrogi]

Al Gore was the chief architect of the Willie Horton ads. Gore is the one who introduced Willie Horton to American politics. He used Willie Horton in a race-baiting attack on Mike Dukakis in the 1988 primary.

[chucks]

It is way too early to start with the impeachment meme. ObaMao is way to weird to be President and is remarkably stupid for such an educated man. But neither of those shortcomings, however disconcerting are impeachable offenses.
Good job Bla'm, I had to look up two words on that post.

[KS]

There is no evidence for impeachment at this time. I'd prefer to avoid it altogether if at all possible after the last go-around with Clinton. Brown is on a par with the leftist moonbats that went after Bush/Cheney with the baseless claims that never rose to a serious level.

I believe in eternal vigilance no matter who is president. If the White House keeps acting Nixonian, they will encourage Republican operatives to go after him. So for the good of the country, he best cool it with the enemies list and his orchestrated war on opposing views. "Will he ? Doubtful, he appears to have very little self discipline.

[joanie]

and is remarkably stupid for such an educated man.

Well, educated and stupid is better than just stoopid. And you oughta know.

Brown's bank account must be low. So he's back to milk the suckers who fall for his antics. See above.

If Brown weren't in politics, he'd be in religion. Or was he? Either way, it's the same thing.

[Unkl Witz]

NO, no, no, no.....

religion is much worse.

[mercifurious]

And here I was thinking that Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity had the best punch me faces. Welcome Floyd Brown

[Coiler]

He definitely has a what-me-worry face.

[mike young]

Floyd, We the people cannot impeach an USURPER. We the people MUST convict the usurper, the courts are a joke and have no interest in doing so,with a conviction charge We the people can easily gut congress,senate , and house through this action and round up all involved to be properly incarcerated for life. A conviction will also nullify any and all signed doc.,treaties(copenhagen!yikes!)laws and appointed commies. An Usurper conviction is the only way to rid our land of the commie bastard child.